History
Higata Station opened on 25 February 1898 as a stop on the Sōbu Railway in what is now the city of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, handling both passengers and freight. The Sōbu Railway was nationalised on 1 September 1907, placing the station under the Japanese Government Railway and later Japan National Railways. Scheduled freight operations were withdrawn on 1 October 1971. On 1 April 1987 the station transferred to East Japan Railway Company with the privatisation of JNR. Today Higata is a staffed local stop on the Sōbu Main Line about 98.8 kilometres east of Tokyo Station, with two side platforms linked by a footbridge.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.